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...evoked the magic of discovery and invention. The firm that Gilbert founded and built into the nation's leading maker of scientific and educational toys, New Haven's A. C. Gilbert Co., pours forth a whole world of challenging and instructive toys that range from his famous Erector set and American Flyer scale-model electric trains to compact lessons in chemistry, biology and physics. Far more than a successful businessman (his firm now sells $13 million a year in some 50 items), Gilbert was long a revered mentor to thousands of budding young U.S. scientists. Each year thousands...
...began making simple magic kits for students. When a department store began selling his kits, he set up the Mysto Manufacturing Co. in a New Haven tool shed and, after he received his M.D., went into business. He did not do well until he got the idea for the Erector set while absentmindedly watching a network of girders being erected for the electrification of the New Haven Railroad. He and his wife made the first set from cardboard parts. In 1916 he changed his firm's name to the A. C. Gilbert...
Died. Alfred Carlton Gilbert, 76, toy inventor and manufacturer who convinced millions of parents that a boy's best friend is his Erector set and who himself lived a real life of fun and games as Olympic pole vaulter and big-game hunter; of a heart attack; in Boston (see BUSINESS...
...high office buildings that would lodge the city's entire work force. Each rapier-like 528-story building would have atomic-powered elevators, would accommodate 130,000 people. Philadelphia's Lou Kahn, dramatically ignoring the necessity of rectangular symmetry, modeled a skyscraper that suggests a tottering, concrete Erector set. Other projects offer radical new solutions for transportation and land use: Le Corbusier's plan for a road that is itself a building, and Paolo Soleri's tubular concrete bridge that eliminates ascending and descending roads...
PHASE 4: the flow is increased to high pressure, sending a dense cloud of vapor into the air. The fueling is completed. The transporter-erector is removed from the missile. Twelve minutes have passed. At any point up to two minutes before the launching, the U.S.A.F. officer may turn his key, thus starting the activation of the warhead. But the warhead does not become fully armed until after the missile has been launched...